Giving Birth to a Second Home

Right now I am so over the whole selling a house, buying a house, thing. It is exhausting packing to move out of a lake house that we have had for the past eight years. How in the world did we accumulate so much stuff in a 950 square foot house and an 800 square foot garage?

This weekend we cleared out my wood stash. The wood I am keeping is now in storage and the rest is in a fire pit burn pile. Boo! I hated letting go of all those bits and pieces. I know I will be needing something out of the stash as soon as I get the wood shop up and running. Oh well.

Because we are selling a lot of the furniture in our current lake house and moving into a larger home, I have started collecting things that we need. We are also keeping a lot of my son and daughter in law’s stuff while they are out of the country. Right now we have the furniture equivalent of 2.5 homes stashed in our suburban home and a storage unit. The clutter is wearing on me.

Here is a tour of our house. The following pictures may not be appropriate for young children, or my mother.

When you enter our front door there is a dry sink that is going to get a major overhaul and become a small buffet in our lake house dining area. ( Envision losing the curvy top section, chicken wire in the doors and reclaimed lumber top and you have the idea.) The piece was a gift and I am grateful, it just can’t live in my front hallway. On a furniture dolly.

The green bedroom is a total disaster. The room is stuffed with patio cushions, furniture for the new house, things I need to go through from the lake house, and other assorted things I have found and want to use in the new home. I can’t wait to get the room all fixed up for company.

The blue bedroom is right now the holding place for a queen sized bed, the kids’ turquoise furniture, and other bits that belong in various locations around the house but can’t be there because they have been displaced. As soon as we move in to the new house it should return to some semblance of normalcy.

My craft room is a train wreck. I mean a total and complete mess. I have unfinished projects, paperwork, and workout equipment that needs to be sold all jammed into this space. This is my first priority. I am going to have it cleared out by the end of the week. Expect a post by Thursday. I am holding myself accountable.

The garage. What can I say about the garage? As soon as the lake house is officially sold we are staying home and we are cleaning that puppy out. I mean drag it all into the driveway and figure out a better system kind of clean out. If all goes well, that means in three weeks. I didn’t even have the nerve to take a picture for you guys. It is worse than the office.

The family room is holding a few extra chairs, the closets are popping. I am getting cranky.

I know it is only temporary but I am going to have to start the purge very soon.